Wellington

Creating level lawn or entertaining areas on a sloping block is what most of our terracing walls are built for. Those jobs use timber, sleeper, block or stone depending on height and style. Where the levels get serious, we bring in engineered designs.

Many smaller garden walls can be built without any approval at all. Once a wall passes a certain height, sits on a boundary or affects an easement, engineering and a permit usually become necessary. Part of our service is telling you which side of the line your project falls on and arranging what is needed.

There is no standard rate, because the price reflects the specific wall and the specific site. Height, length, material choice, access, soil, excavation and drainage all feed into it, and taller or boundary walls may add engineering or approval costs. The simplest way to get a real number is our free no obligation site inspection and written quote.

Weather is the one variable nobody controls, and wet ground can pause excavation until conditions improve. Under normal conditions most residential walls go up in a few days to about a week. If rain shifts the schedule we tell you straight away and adjust the plan with you.

The footing usually decides the outcome. If it is intact and the lean is modest, reinforcement and proper drainage can often pull the situation back, but a failed footing means the wall above it cannot be saved. Our on-site inspection establishes which one you are dealing with before any work is recommended.

Retaining walls are structural work, so we treat credentials seriously. Our builders are licensed, our insurance is comprehensive, and any wall that requires engineering is certified by a structural engineer. The result is a wall built to Australian standards with proper paperwork behind it.

Coverage is broad with us. We build throughout the local area and the surrounding suburbs and regularly head out to projects across the wider region. If your address sits a little further out, call or send an enquiry and we will confirm whether we can get to you.

Council requirements never become your problem to untangle, because we identify whether approvals or engineering apply during the site visit and manage them after you accept the written quote. With paperwork settled, the crew excavates, forms the footings, builds the wall, installs drainage, backfills and leaves the area tidy.

You will never see the drainage once a wall is finished, yet it is the part that decides whether the wall survives. Trapped water is the main reason retaining walls fail, because soggy soil pushes far harder than dry soil. Our walls all include ag pipe, gravel backfill and weep holes behind the face.

A properly built wall should give you no trouble, and our guarantee makes sure of it. Workmanship is covered on every job, with engineer certification adding assurance on structural builds. We make it right if anything does not look the way it should after completion.